Improvement in skirt-boards



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

JOHN F. NETTLETON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKIRT-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 113,195, dated March 28, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN F. NETTLETON, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Skirt-Board 5 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in'connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specication, and represents, in-

Fignre 1, a side View of the board set up for use; Fig. 2, a side viewof the board folded, when not in use; and in Fig. 3, an end view of the board set up.

This invention relates to an improvement in what are termed skirt-boardsthat is to say, boards used for ironing skirts and other articles; the object of the invention being to combine with the board, at one end, a permanent support, which may be folded against the board when not in use, but firm and strong when set np, and not liable to be tripped.

To this end the invention consists in arranging at one end of the board folding legs, hinged to the board to fold down against the board when not in use, and combined with a jointed brace hinged to the board and to the legs, so

that when set up and the brace extended the legs are rigidly held in position, and that by doubling the brace at the joint the legs may be folded against the board. A

A is the board, B B, a pair of legs, hinged to the board at a, so as to fold up against the board, as seen in Fig. 2. C D are two parts of the brace, hinged together at d, one part, C, hinged to the table at c, the other part, D, hinged to the legs atf, so that when setup, as in Fig. l, the ends of the'two parts bear together at d and form a firm brace which cannot be easily tripped, and when not in use is folded by throwing up the jointed ends of the brace, allowing the legs to fold up against the table and double the brace, as seen in Fig. 2.

I do not broadly claim combining a folding leg with a skirt-board; but

What I claim as my invention is The combination of the skirt-board A, legs B, hinged to the table, and the brace C D, jointed and hinged to the table and legs, the whole constructed and arranged to fold in the manner substantially as described.

JOHN F. NETTLETON. Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITs, J. H. SEUMWAY. 

